tv The Papers BBC News November 3, 2018 10:30pm-11:01pm GMT
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hello. this is bbc news. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first the headlines. seven children have been injured, after an inflatable slide collapsed before a fireworks display in woking. a minute's silence from leicester city's players, away to cardiff, remembering the club chairman, who was among the dead. in bangkok, a week—long buddhist funeral is underway at a royal temple, to honour the billionaire businessman and owner of leicester city football club, vichai srivaddhanaprabha. broadcaster paul gambaccini receives a payout from the crown prosecution service — over its handling of unfounded sexual assault allegations against him. with just days to go before the midterm elections, president trump arrives in montana trying to boost republican votes hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
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bringing us tomorrow. with me are ruth lea, economic adviser to the arbuthnot banking group and the playwright and columnist at the new european, bonnie greer. welcome to you both. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the observer claims businessman aaron banks may have misled parliament over links between his pro—brexit campaign and his insurance business during the eu referendum. the mail on sunday leads with a complaint from downing street to the bbc about its coverage of the budget on radio 4's today programme. the sunday telegraph says the health secretary is to call on employers to offer perks such as free fruit, bicycle loans and counselling to help improve the health of their staff. the sunday times leads with a story about the prime minister securing a brexit deal with brusells that would also win the backing of parliament. the daily star on sunday claims
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the army is facing a backlash after destroying more than 1,000 working dogs, which could have been found new homes. and the sunday express says seven children were seriously hurt after a giant inflatable slide collapsed at a firework display in surrey. a variety of stories making the front pages, claiming several of the sunday headlines. we will start with the sunday times. they claim an exclusive, breakthrough on the irish issue. they claim an exclusive, breakthrough on the irish issuei think it is a secret plan to secure some sort of deal. the united kingdom as a whole is to stay in the customs area to get round the irish border problem but theresa may will have to tell brexiteers it can only be temporary. it cannot be in the
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customs unions are ever. they are also talking about a future economic partnership that may be negotiated, something like the canadian free trade agreement also it does seem incredibly arcane for them even though the sunday times is making out this is a new story, i would not say any of this is revolutionary. for a while she has been sane, we may be staying in the customs union for longer. -- she has been saying. we are on the opposite sides of this. we both agree that this is absurd. what it is about is the conservative party. we have been in this country hostage to this party since the referendum because they are negotiating with themselves. this should have been done and dusted by now. this is ridiculous. the fact we are at the point where they are talking to themselves and she is trying to hold onto herjob
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and they are trying to keep whatever they have going in parliament. we get this kind of headline which is not helpful to the country. the irish issue has been so complex. this should have been from day one. it has always been a problem and nothing has changed. the question is, why? why has it not? i was going to say on the irish problem, basically, it is far too complicated than that it is almost weaponised bribe brussels in order to get concessions out of the uk government. —— by bristol —— by brussels. it has been blown out of all proportion. the eu now accepts that regulatory checks can take place in the market by british
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officials, meaning they can "that factories and shops rather than to ha rd factories and shops rather than to hard border. what is it? we will be not only compliance and insofar as they have to have special checks on they have to have special checks on the island of ireland for fighters sanitary. what the dup has problems with its northern ireland. i think the whole thing has just been weaponised. by the conservative party. to cut a long story short we do not know where we are. you are not convinced it is a huge breakthrough. we are staying with rex and the story broke about the investigation into aaron banks to do with funding of his pro brexit
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campaign. he calls himself a bad boy and he might actually be a bad boy! he is being investigated by the national crime agency, which is investigating allegations of criminal offences. apparently years coming back to sit for an interview on the marr show tomorrow to tell us that he is innocent. i do not know why that is happening back here he is and this is what is going on. i have no idea where he would allow himself to be the interview and this kind of circumstance. there is another twist to the story here. the suggestion is that he used his staff at his insurance company to work on the brexit campaign. if that is true it should have been declared and electoral law. that is the new story. they have a series of e-mails
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that have been leaked from former employees. he claims it is not true. of course he denies it all. if i we re of course he denies it all. if i were him i would not go on to the andrew marr show. why is he doing it? is andrew marr show. why is he doing it? is he trying to come on be upfront about himself? if this is going to happen i would like to see the other side on the show, what the allegations are. i do not want the whole ten minutes to beat devoted to him trying to sell me what this is about. andrew marr will give him a robust grilling entry the whole thing fairly and equitably. in the telegraph, we are talking transport, specifically hs 2. they are talking about the north of birmingham, says two which might be cancelled. base one goes from london to birmingham and then it splits, one that goes to yorkshire and then to manchester. ——
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phase one. this is a dreadful vanity project. it is a vanity project, com plete project. it is a vanity project, complete misallocation. by whom? chris grayling says it may never happen. if you are talking about 60 billion 100 billion, whatever it may cost in the end, surely we could use that money better, on the northern powerhouse for example, which is far more needed. i am actively tweeting on banning hs 2. are you actively tweeting? if i were in the north i would be very angry. i would say i would be very angry. i would say i would be very angry. i would say i would be angry about it because these are promises made to people that do not happen. you may be absolutely right that this is a promise. i guess the point is, there was a promise. you're saying money
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could be better spent elsewhere. was a promise. you're saying money could be better spent elsewherem isa could be better spent elsewherem is a promise made and another promise broken. it is a promise made and it makes people angry and they do what they do because westminster does not go through what it says it will do. it sorts itself out. very few people in northern england would be heartbroken if hs 2 was cancelled and they had better transparent nine routes. it is on the books. i agree with you that it is on the books and suddenly it is not there.|j with you that it is on the books and suddenly it is not there. i have been brought on this programme to be a northerner. it is another thing on the books that is not going to happen. there was some disagreement between bbc radio 4 happen. there was some disagreement between bbc radio a programme, the today programme, and the government which was unhappy with the coverage of the budget and specifically claims about whether the budget would benefit the rich rather than
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the poor. it seems to me it is another example of the conservative dogma and they are talking about a foundation they say is left wing. this foundation is a think tank claiming the radio four programme took the line are making on the budget and presented it as fact and said it was terribly left wing bias. this is a headline. the conservatives are now complaining. the resolution foundation claimed the budget with mainly favoured the rich and this is the main complaint from number 10. the mail goes on about it had people like david willis. insofar as the saying is for the rich my do think that is unfair. when you think of some the measures in the budget, help for universal credit and increasing personal allowa nces
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credit and increasing personal allowances to 12500 and an increase in the national living wage. also extra money for the national health service. put it this way, i would disagree with the assessment of the resolution foundation. that is a very unfair description of the budget and i'm sticking up for philip hammond. i am wondering why this is on the front page footer thatis this is on the front page footer that is my question and argument.|j would that is my question and argument.” would have no question about why the mail on sunday with want to bash the bbc. that is beyond me. let's go back to the observer. this is an interesting issue about parents and staff, raising concern about gender identity clinic. this is a delicate issue. there complaint is that they think that young people between 17 and 25 are being pushed through this definition to quickly in their
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opinion, this is parents. that is fascinating to me because i wonder why parents are saying there is about people who are 17 to 24. i would love to know what the 17 to 25—year—olds are saying. these are not exactly children, they are adults. so, why are parents up in arms about it? i do not quite understand why and i would like to hear... we need to know. it is a very topical issue, isn't it? gender realignment and gender identity, i would say in the last 12 months, two yea rs has would say in the last 12 months, two years has been at the forefront of people are beginning to raise questions about it. why are parents coming in over17 questions about it. why are parents coming in over 17 to 25—year—olds. they are not children. there are concerns and we do not know what they are. let's send with the sunday telegraph and their lead story. the headline here seems to be that bosses need to be giving staff free
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fruit, according to the health secretary because that will make us all jolly healthy. they do have a responsibility to start. there is and that the city crisis. there is pressure on the nhs. it is ok to put a bowl of fruit on the table. it does not help anybody. there is a candy machine. it might be extreme. the idea that perhaps matt hancock is saying that essentially employers are is saying that essentially employers a re often best is saying that essentially employers are often best place to be the ones helping those at work who are struggling maybe with illness or depression or bereavement. because we spend most of our time in their presence and it will be a good thing to have an in courage and the people, not make them do anything. if you see a bunch of apples
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somewhere you might want to take a bite of an apple as opposed to a horrible candy bar. those sorts of things because there is a crisis. get it free from the local supermarket. you have to walk to get those will do if it is at your desk, it isa those will do if it is at your desk, it is a good thing. borrow a child. go to the supermarket and get a free app. that is it. we will be back at 11:30pm for another look at the papers. next on bbc news, time for click. ai.
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that's what the future is about, if you believe the hype. computer programmes that learn from past experience, that improve and that sometimes, learn to solve problems in ways that even we hadn't thought of. well, here at microsoft, future decoded events, ai is at the top of the agenda. these days, there are very real examples that al are starting to be able to do things that were once only the reserve of humans. it is learning to drive, to play games. it has learned to paint. it has learned to understand what we say. each ten year or so we seem to have a breakthrough moment where we take a piece of human ability and defeat it with machine. ‘96 it was chess, go, last year — and we all worry. what that is demonstrating
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is that our ais are extraordinarily good and superhuman in tasks that we can specify and understand. they can improve and self improve. the challenge is this whole idea of general intelligence or transfer of cross tasks and that proves much more challenging, much more difficult. —— across tasks. we think it will take many decades to unfathom that, and the old adage was, you cannot teach a machine to do sentiment programming, but if you have a learning capacity in the system that allows it to go beyond the performance that was originally given to the system. and it is certainly true that al is already replacing us in particularjobs. we will talk more about that later. but we thought we would start with an interesting phenomenon which is happening in certain parts of the developing world, where ai is actually creating jobs. see, in orderfor artificial intelligence to learn, it needs to have access to loads and loads of data. for example, self driving cars
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need access to images where all the objects in them are correctly tagged. that work is being done by humans. david lee sent this report, not from california, but where the artificial intelligence journey really starts. this is the kibera slum in nairobi, kenya. more than 1 million people live here. i am 10,000 miles in what feels like an entire universe away from the lush campuses of silicon valley. how are you? hello! the people i am here to meet are every bit as vital to the next wave of cutting edge tech as anyone you could meet in california. you have your brother living here? yes, my brother, my daughter and my mum. are they all supported by you? yes. they are supported by me. this is brenda,
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a 26—year—old single mother, who has lived in kibera her entire life. how does it feel to be creating the technology that is going to change the future? it feels so good. at least you get to do something unique from others. at least with my work that i am doing, i believe i work for something that is go to help me. not even me in the future, but it will help someone in the future. every workday, brenda travels for around two hours to a building on the other side of nairobi. she is among a team of around 2,000 people who work in this building for samasource, an organisation that recruits people from the very poorest parts of the world. in some cases, that means those who are earning less than $2 a day. here, they earn around $9 a day and there are importantjob is to give artificial intelligence its intelligence. when artificial intelligence works, it sometimes feels like magic.
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but really, what it is is data, lots and lots of data. if you want a self driving car to know what a person is, you have to feed it loads of pictures of people. if you want it to know what a tree is, it takes millions and millions of pictures of trees. that is what is called "training data", and it is here where that data is created. so, depending on the instructions, we are going to basically tag, or annotate, items of interest. right. how is that? that's good. is that good? not quite right? not quite right. laughter. the item needs to be squarely inside that box. if we zoom in... turns out no pixel can be out of place, or unaccounted for. the sky and the street signs, the pedestrians and the lanes, everything needs tagging. once the work is done, a supervisor will check
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it is up to scratch. the quickest, sharpest annotators in the team will win prizes, such as shopping vouchers. samasource's clients include google, salesforce, ebay, yahoo and many others, working on everything from self driving cars to online shopping. one recent project from microsoft's bing search engine helped it become better at identifying certain types of clothing. while most of their employees are of course in the developing world, the compa ny‘s headquarters can be found in san francisco's mission district. when i first started this business ten years ago, very smart people in the tech world and in the world of big philanthropy for it was a wonderful idea, but it would never work. —— said it was a wonderful idea. lila touts her companies record on quality and security, reasons why tech firms come to them. but of course, there is a very obvious reason why these tasks are outsourced to places where wages are rock bottom and people are desperate for work.
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some of your clients are the biggest, richest companies in the world. can they not afford to pay more than $9 a day for this work? we make a guarantee to every single worker at samasource that they are paid a living wage. if we were to pay people substantially more than that in some of the markets we are in, we would throw everything off and it would have a potentially negative impact on the cost of housing, the cost of food, et cetera and the communities in which our workers live and thrive. so, for us, we are on average, increasing our workers household income by over 500%. you know the way you remember you are good at something and it turns out you weren't? this is me discovering that with batting. luckily indian cricket legend anil kumble was on hand to realise how it was done.
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—— show how it ought to be done. the most important thing is that speed and how much twist at the time of impact and the quality of the shot itself, how close to this sweet spot here. bat speed, twist and how close you are to the sweet spot are now measurable thanks to new artificial intelligence technology, power bat. it is being developed by kumble's company, spektakom. it is hidden under the bat. this is a cluster of sensors, you have a bluetooth area, but also gyro sensor which measures the twist of the bat, the velocity as well. there is also a sense of vibration so you can detect where the ball is hitting in approximation to that all—importa nt sweet spot. the sticker sends those measurements for the speed, the twist, the quality of the shot and they are being combined to calculate the power.
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it is essentially the energy you get into the shot. the system aims to take fans watching the game up close to what's happening on the pitch. the first use is to enhance fan engagement. everybody talks about timing of the shot. this was powerfully hit. this was sweetly banged. what does that all mean in real—time numbers, in real time data? the amateur version of power bat communicates directly to a mobile phone via bluetooth but because you can't carry a mobile in professional games, with the pro set—up, all data runs to a device hidden behind the stumps. this is how the professional system works. the data comes from a tag on the back of a bat and then comes to stumpy, the stump bot buried underground. you can see the antenna,
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this bit will be poking out from the top of the pitch. the data is sent down the cable to the cloud where an algorithm does its work. the pro power bat might end up being used by umpires, especially for broadcasters now using it in the indian professional league, calling out bad on—field umpiring decisions. the mobile app is more about cricket fans and amateur players getting closer to emulating their heroes. for the fan out there who wants to look up to his hero, what is the benchmark for him to achieve? can you emulate him? can you be as close to power that he can deliver, can you do that? that is something you can do. at the end of the day, in a polite arrangement, anil let me bowl him out. yes, it was fake by the got first ball. —— but i got him. it felt great. that is it this week.
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don't forget, we are all the social media. we live on facebook and twitter at bbc click and instagram at bbc click. we are also on youtube. we will see you soon. good evening. plenty of drive fireworks displays tonight that the odds damp squib thrown in. pretty mixed this saturday evening. —— but the odd damp squib. an area of low pressure passing to the north west
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of the uk. in the north west and the south—east the day ended with clear spells. weather watchers were out capturing the scenes. that was east sussex earlier and this is how it looked across the scottish highlands. as we go through what is left of tonight we continue to see this stripe of cloud and rain seeping through. the south—east corner is staying clear and a bit chilly. it should remain frost free with clear spells in the north—west. into tomorrow the band of cloud and outbreaks of rain will continue to sit around across the central swathe of the uk. the rain is pepping up in the north—west. across scotland we will see spells of sunshine and scattering of showers in the north west. wind gusts of 40 to 50 miles an hour. in glasgow, 13 degrees. a
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fine afternoon in northern ireland. a lot of cloud in the midlands and east wales. patchy and more persistent rain in the south—west. in east anglia and the south east dry with spells of sunshine. 0n sunday evening the rain will turn more persistent and more heavily across the south—western corner of the country. for many of the dry as we go into the evening. 0n bonfire night on monday, a similar story. low pressure will focus itself across the western side of the country. this weather front will work its way through. 0n weather front will work its way through. on monday there will be outbreaks of patchy rain in the north west of scotland, northern ireland, west wales and the far south—west. in the central and eastern parts of the country it will be driving with —— dry with sunshine. very mild for the time of
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year. wind and rain at times but not all the time. this is bbc news. i'm rachel schofield. the headlines: a minute's silence from leicester city's players, away to cardiff, remembering the club chairman, who was among the dead. we arejust coming we are just coming to support the boys because i think leicester has been through a tough week and we wa nt to been through a tough week and we want to show our love and support the leicester and the leicester team. in bangkok, a week—long buddhist funeral is underway at a royal temple, to honour the billionaire businessman and owner of leicester city football club, vichai srivaddhanaprabha eight children have been injured and a major incident declared after an inflatable slide collapsed at a fairground in woking more than 70 business people have written to the sunday times demanding another referendum on brexit and a public vote
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